The 2017 Best Workplaces for Parents: Committed at Work and at Home

Great Place to Work and FORTUNE have published their 2017 list of the Best Workplaces for Parents, along with broader research exploring the experience of mothers and fathers on the job.

Great Place to Work analyzed more than 440,000 surveys from employees assessing their organizations’ camaraderie, fairness, leadership, advancement opportunities and other elements of a great workplace. The ranking also considered parents' experiences compared to their colleagues without children, and workplace benefits that support family life.

Research across all companies surveyed by Great Place to Work found mothers and fathers were more committed to their work than non-parents. Co-workers with children at home were more likely to plan a long-term future with their employers, feel their jobs make an impact and find their work meaningful. Parents also reported more frequent concerns about office politics and the fairness of promotions. Despite its prominence in programs aimed at parents, work-life balance ranked in the lowest quartile of retention factors for employees with children.

“People with children work hard on the job and off. The Best Workplaces for Parents create even-handed organizations where employees with and without children at home feel equally included, engaged and respected,” said Michael Bush, CEO of Great Place to Work.

Creating a family-friendly workplace:

Nine in 10 parents at the Best Workplaces said they want to stay with their organizations for a long time.

At the Best Workplaces, 88 percent of mothers and 87 percent of fathers said their work is more than “just a job.”

92 percent have permanent spaces for nursing.

About the Best Workplaces for Parents

Great Place to Work based its ranking on a data-driven methodology applied to anonymous Trust Index™ survey responses from 443,258 employees at Great Place to Work-Certified™ organizations. To learn more about Great Place to Work Certification and recognition on Best Workplaces lists published with FORTUNE, visit Greatplacetowork.com.

Great Place to Work

Great Place to Work® is a global people analytics and consulting firm that helps companies of all sizes produce better business results by focusing on the work experience for every employee—our research shows there’s a clear and direct relationship between employee engagement and financial performance. Over the past 30 years, we have surveyed more than 100 million employees to help organizations around the world identify and build high-trust, high-performance workplace cultures. Powered by decades of research, Emprising®, our Software-as-a-Service survey and analytics platform, empowers companies with access to the assessments, data, and real-time reporting needed to help them create a meaningful impact on their business, their people, and their culture. Through our certification programs, we recognize outstanding workplaces and produce Fortune’s annual list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, as well as a variety of other Best Workplace rankings in the United States and in more than 60 other countries. Everything we do is driven by our mission: to build a better world by helping every organization become a Great Place to Work For All by the year 2030.